U+103C "ြ" Myanmar Consonant Sign Medial Ra Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+103C "ြ" Myanmar Consonant Sign Medial Ra is a combining diacritical mark used in the Myanmar script to represent the medial consonant "ra" (the sound /j/ or /r/) within a syllable stack, appearing as a subscript or attached modification beneath or beside a base consonant character. It is an essential component in the orthography of Burmese and other languages using the Myanmar script, such as Mon, Shan, and Karen, where it alters the pronunciation of the initial consonant to create a consonant cluster with a medial "r" or "y" sound, depending on the language and context. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Myanmar block and requires proper rendering support from fonts that correctly position it relative to its base character.

General Properties

Code Point U+103C
Version Added 5.1
Name Myanmar Consonant Sign Medial Ra
Block Myanmar
General Category Spacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ြ
HTML Hex Encoding ြ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x80 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x103C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000103C
C/C++/Java Escape \u103c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Myanmar
Script Extensions Myanmar
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant Medial
Indic Positional Category Top And Bottom And Left
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Spacing Mark
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend